Series: 3 VV (Volume 3)
Scope and Content Note: Mainly Draper correspondence and notes relating to the Revolution in South Carolina, 1774-1781, with emphasis on Andrew Williamson's Cherokee campaign in 1776. Among the papers are extracts from contemporary newspapers; letters and maps about the location of Cherokee sites; copies (printed and manuscript) of a journal written by a participant in the 1776 expedition, possibly Arthur Fairies; a copy of a letter (1777) from Sumter to John McIntosh; some information on Andrew Pickens's Cherokee campaign in 1781; notes on Joseph Martin and on the Winston family of Virginia; a note on Charles C. Pinckney from a sermon at his funeral (1825); and an original letter (1826) by Gabriel Tutt concerning his claim against South Carolina for his Revolutionary military service. Draper transcribed a few pieces from the Henry Laurens Papers in the South Carolina Historical Society and from manuscripts owned by Thomas Addis Emmet and William Gilmore Simms.